CTC 5 Low high voltage
 

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a few things, shunt tube connected (not malfuctioning), CRT not drawing excessive beam current (bias correct, no shorts in grids). Horz freq correct? B+ correct at the plate of the HOT, Screen voltage and HOT bias voltages correct, Correct drive form.

I would start by checking the HOT current by checking the V drop at the cathode fuse as specified.

oh test the B+ at the plate cap with the plate cap OFF and the tube out of the socket. with no load it should be very high, not a great test if you are getting some HV but a starting point. Really a better test for no HV.

HOT screen voltage will tell you a lot. tube 6CB5 pin 1 or 8 (screen) should be 172vdc, pin 3 or 6 (cathode) should be 7.5v and pin 4 or 5 (control grid) should be -40v

for testing the SHUNT TUBE you can siimply disconnect the 6BK4 plate lead (keep it clear of any ground, this will have FULL HV on it so be careful. disconnecting it will clear the shunt tube as a problem (if the HV comes back that is).

also is the flyback transformer getting hot (wait a few min to touch it AFTER power off) Any time you are working on HV I recommend just leaving the HV prob attached so you can always confirm if HV is present even after power off.

Run through the horizontal section alignment procedure in Sams, that usually clears up some problems. If frequency is on point, you have good B+ to the plate cap on the horizontal output tube, the HV rectifier is good in another set (don't trust the tube tester on this one) and the fuse isn't blown, you might be looking for a new flyback.

Pull the shunt reg cap off the 6BK4 and disconnect the HV anode wire to the CRT. Still low? The problem is in the chassis. FWIW though, no CTC-5 I've ever seen had good HV. Mine maxes out at 21kv, and I modded the chassis with pots to control shunt tube grid bias and horizontal drive.

Do you have a scope? I'm no good with one, but used one to tune up the horiz waveforms on my CTC-5 and it helped, though mine still runs low (maybe 19k). I stopped worrying about it because it puts out a nice picture. Be careful tweaking those coils, you can easily crossthread the cores on some of them.

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do you think the yoke could have anything to do with it?:scratch2:
OR a break in the board, cracked solder etc.?

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if it is its proboby right under the hv cage i would look at all the retrace lines around there then try that:smoke:

best way to trouble shoot HV would be to start with voltage readings on the horz out tube. the 5 has a 82 ohm resistor in the cathode circuit, and pulls cathode current thru the static converge pots. Get a resistance reading on the cathode pin of the tube socket and I will compare one of mine (or if you have a SAMs see if there is a resistance chart you can check). besides drive issues (which I doubt you have if the fly is not getting hot) You should check the screen voltage and with the plate lead disconnected and the tube pulled, check the Hor out plate cap lead and see if you have full B+ there. You did say you subbed known good tubes for horz out/damper/shunt/focus?

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I would think you can do it all as long as you hook up a yoke and convergence coils

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